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Instead, John hid them behind a panel in the medieval manor house — and it wasn’t until the more liberal 1980s that historian Helena Whitbread set about translating them.

According to Whitbread, Lister regarded her union with Walker as a marriage and "wanted to emulate as far as was possible the rituals performed in the heterosexual world, making vows to each other, exchanging rings and taking the sacrament at the altar together".

Gay and lesbian activists have hailed them as the first same-sex couple to receive a Church of England blessing, nearly 200 years before gay marriage became legal in England and Wales.

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Lister's life has been brought to TV beforeCredit: BBC

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Maxine Peake played her in The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister on BBC Two in 2010Credit: BBC

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The eight-part BBC drama has been written and directed by Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright.

Sally said: "Anne Lister is a gift to a dramatist — one of the most exuberant, thrilling, brilliant women in British history.

"Landowner, industrialist, traveller, mountaineer, scholar, would-be brain surgeon and prolific diarist, she returns from years of travel to her ancestral home, Shibden Hall in West Yorkshire, to restore it — and marry Ann Walker. It’s a beautifully rich, complex, surprising love story."

This is not the first time Lister’s life has been brought to TV. Maxine Peake played her in The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister, on BBC Two in 2010.